HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | NOVEMBER 2026 51 inc., is appointed emerging professional board member for a one-year term. Nathan Tomas, undergraduate researcher at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, is appointed student board member for a one-year term. ASM Heat Treating Society Chuck Faulkner, senior business development manager, heat treatment and forging, at Quaker Houghton, serves as president of HTS, and Lee Rothleutner, manager of materials R&D at The Timken Company, serves as vice president. Reappointed board members Liang He, application engineer at Air Products and Chemicals, and Trisha Rouse, components and system reliability technical specialist at Stellantis, along with newly appointed Norm McDonald III, global heat treat engineering champion at Dana Inc., will serve three-year terms. Twila Martinson, associate engineer, metallurgical, at Caterpillar, and Rajan Bhambroo, materials engineer at Tenneco Inc., who is reappointed, will serve as emerging professional board members for one-year terms. Mitchell H. Shields of Colorado School of Mines is reappointed student board member for a one-year term, and Ellen Troyanosky, Ph.D. student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is appointed by the board for a one-year term. ASM International Metallographic Society Andrew Kitahara, staff materials engineer at Analytical Mechanics Associates, serves as acting president of IMS, and Michael Keeble serves as acting vice president. Reappointed board members Gabe Lucas, FASM, metallography subject expert at Scot Forge Co., and Christopher Marvel, assistant professor at Louisiana State University, along with newly appointed Dana Drake, senior lab engineer – metals at EOS of North America, will serve three-year terms. Gladys Duran Duran, Ph.D. candidate at Colorado State University, is appointed student board member for a one-year term. ASM International Organization on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies Srinidhi Nagaraja, senior technical fellow at G.RAU Inc., is appointed president of SMST. Parikshith Kumar, materials scientist, metals platform, at W.L. Gore & Associates, is appointed vice president, and Ashley N. Bucsek, professor at the University of Michigan, remains on the board as immediate past president. Officers serve two-year terms. Eric Lehuta, engineering manager at Norman Noble Inc., and Paul Motzki, scientific director and CEO of ZeMA gGmbH, are reappointed to the board for three-year terms. Masha Lebedeva, research assistant at Iowa State University, is appointed as student board member for a one-year term. ASM AFFILIATE BOARD MEMBERS McDonald Roux-Garcia Faulkner Rothleutner He Rouse Tomas Martinson Shields Troyanosky Kitahara Keeble Bhambroo Lucas Marvel Drake Motzki Lehuta Lebedeva Bucsek Nagaraja Kumar Duran Duran
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